FINAL REVIEW. PRESENTATION



 


FINAL REVIEW


 


FINAL REVIEW CRITICS


MORNING

STUART DODD

Stewart Dodd is founding director of Satellite Architects Limited.  He teaches Intermediate Unit 1 at the AA. He also teaches in AA’s Design & Make at Hooke Park and co-directs the Marking the Forest Visiting Programme, in Eugene, Oregon.

 

CARLOS JIMENEZ CENAMOR

Is architect and architect is the co-founder of the Architecture office casaleganitos.  He is also the Bartlett Summer Foundation Coordinator and Tutor and teaches in Unit 22 at the Bartlett.

 

ED BOTTOMS

Edward Bottoms is the AA Archivist. He received a history degree from Exeter University and a Masters in architectural history from the University of East Anglia. He has published on a range of subjects including cast museums and the history of architectural education.

 

SAM JACOB

Of the Sam Jacob Studio.  Was a founding director of Fat Architecture.  Is columnist for Art Review and Dezeen and blogs at Strangeharvest.  Professor of Architecture of UIC, visiting Professor at Yale, and Director of Night School here at the AA.

 

KARTHIKEYAN RAMAMOORTHY

Graduated from the AA DRL, and works with Allies and Morrison – after many years with KPF. 

 

ROZ BARR

Is the director of a London-based architecture studio founded in 2010 after 10 years as an Associated Director with Eric Parry Architects.  And has also taught here at the AA. 

 

FENNA HAAKMA WAGENAAR

Has worked with OMA, with Herzog de Meuron, Fosters, Sanaa (a slew of Pritzker Prize winners), worked for Design for London (the Mayor), before again working for OMA in London this time.  Now Now runs her own office here in London, teaches at London Metropolitan University AND is an ex-Summer School tutor.

 

CHEE-KIT LAI

Architect and co-Director of The Mobile Studio.  His is also a RIBA awards assessor.  Previously worked with Ken Yeang and also runs a unit at the Bartlett school of Architecture. 

 

SHUMON BASAR

Shumon is a writer, editor, curator and director of the cultural programme at the AA and is working on a novel entitled 'World!World!World!'

 

 

 

AFTERNOON

MADELON VRIESENDORP

Is an Artist, former AA Tutor, frequent critics and workshop teacher at AA and elsewhere.  She is a founding partner of OMA and her famous paintings and drawings have been published and exhibited at the Guggenheim, Pompidou and elsewhere. 

 

STUART DODD

Stewart Dodd is founding director of Satellite Architects Limited.  He teaches Intermediate Unit 1 at the AA. He also teaches in AA’s Design & Make at Hooke Park and co-directs the Marking the Forest Visiting Programme, in Eugene, Oregon.

 

NEREA CALVILLO

Researches the agencies of the microscopic components of the air to study their relationships with the urban environment.  Teaches at the University in Alicante and is a PhD researcher at Goldsmiths.

 

MIRAJ AHMED

Painter and Architect and Unit Master of Intermediate Unit 13 and teaches at Camberwell College of Art.

 

THEO SPYROPOULOS

Director of the AA DRL and founder of Minimaforms which currently has a piece in the Digital Revolution show at the Barbican on now. 

 

FABRIZIO BALLABIO

Fabrizio Ballabio studied at the  Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, the ETH in Zurich andhas recently completed the MA in History and Critical Thinking at the AA. 

 

JOHN NG

Studied in Bath and here at the AA – beginning with his own stint as a student in the AA Summer School.  He taught in the AA’s Diploma Unit 5 and now teaches in the AA First Year Studio.

 

ADAM FURMAN

AA Graduate and former Summer School Tutor, Adam now combines architecture with products, interiors writing and teaching.  He is a founder of Madam Studio and Saturated Space.

EXERCISE 3. THE HACIENDA MUST BE BUILT

Mission 1: From DYMAXION (DYnamic MAXimum tensION) to LEMACTION (LEarning from MAximum aCTION)

  
INSTRUCTIONS:

1) You will find some light material on your table. That is the beginning of a challenging competition.

2) During the next three hours, try to build the largest space as possible with that material.

3) Seduce the jury with your arguments.

  

CONTENT:

The Hacienda must be built. A place for the maximum leisure, intense atmospheric experiences and interesting degrees of uncertainty that will host a diversity of uncontrolled pleasant experiences. The Hacienda has to be constructed with the minimum of conventional architectonic physical materials (beams, pillars, covers, facades, grounds, etc.) and the maximum of immaterial elements (sounds, vibrations, glances, desires, signs, etc.)

“We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry.” (1)

1- Gilles Ivain (Ivan Chtcheglov). Formulary for a new Urbanism. At Internationale Situationniste #1. October 1953.